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Damn, is he fine or what? Jan Garbarek is making the blood shift in my body when I'm supposed to be innocently blogging one of his very most incredible live performances.
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Our latest episode of Music That Time Forgot involves this Norwegian saxophonist -- OK, he's technically Polish but his family fled the occupation during WWII when he was really small -- hypnotizing yet another audience about 37 or so years ago in Warsaw.
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This bad boy -- worked over by the experts to make it sonically almost indistinguishable from a standard, immaculately-recorded Manfred Eicher ECM platter -- features one of our hero's greatest bands on an 80-minute voyage to stormy serenity.
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I dunno if this band was ever recorded in the studio -- the Wayfarer record this tour is meant to support has Bill Frisell on it instead of David Torn -- but we thank the ROIO gods that someone (the soundman at the desk?) captured it in this sort of quality.
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Speaking of David Torn, he tears this show up like a bundle of confetti at a ticker tape parade and cascades it -- in the form of highly processed notes on the guitar -- over the audience until they are marching down the Fifth Avenue of their minds in perfect step.
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Jan Garbarek Quartet
Jazz Jamboree
Sala Kongresova
Warsaw, Poland
10.23.1983
01 Skygger
02 Kite Dance
03 The Last Stage of a Long Journey
04 Footprints
05 Red Roof
06 Witchi-Tai-To
07 Entering
Total time: 1:18:41
Jan Garbarek - tenor & soprano saxophones, flute
Eberhard Weber - bass
David Torn - guitar & electronics
Michael Di Pasqua - drums
Valleybird/Tom Phillips remaster of a soundboard capture of indeterminate origin
421 MB FLAC/October 2020 archive link
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I'll be back tomorrow and Sunday with stuff that couldn't be more different than this one if it had been imported from another galaxy.